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Gaddafi may now find it difficult to hold onto his northern slice of Chad. The expectation is that the retreating troops will make the arduous 500-mile desert trek north to a Libyan base in the Aozou Strip, a 50-mile-wide, mineral-rich area that has been in dispute since World War II. If Habre decides not to push his fight with Gaddafi into the Aozou Strip, Libyans may push Gaddafi to leave the rest of Chad to Habre. But predictions involving the erratic Gaddafi are always risky. Last week, for instance, he threatened to join the Warsaw Pact...
...realized this last summer when some friends and I were talking about how awful college life is. We were playing "can you top this arduousness," and I'm sure that I emerged as the victor, having had to endure the most arduous tasks at college...
...SALT I antiballistic missile treaty, "has said some reasonable things" on the subject of nuclear policy, argues Cuomo. The Governor thinks that Nixon "would probably have the respect of the Republicans, and he would probably have the respect of the Russians." Would Nixon, 74, be interested in the arduous job? His aides wouldn...
Athletic recruiting is an arduous, year-long process involving a few admissions officers, dozens of coaches, hundreds of alumni, and thousands of the nation's top high school athletes...
Riesman, who taught sociology under the General Education system from 1958 to 1976, said that his job was "very arduous." "I wasn't sorry to drop that burden," he says...